People"It's sort of like all those 12-step...

"It's sort of like all those 12-step groups. You realize you're not a bad person if you don't read the Wall Street Journal every day and you're not crazy if you price-check toilet paper."

-- Tracy Gary, a founder of Resourceful Women, a San Francisco-based group of several hundred women who have inherited or acquired wealth

"It's natural for women's bellies to protrude. Bellies are not by nature flat. Just as I go before the camera, my dresser will say, `Stand up straight; suck in.' "

-- actress Christine Baranski

"You've heard of mood rings? I have mood eyes."

actress Gail O'Grady, who says her eye color changes from blue to green depending on how she feels

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"(A full life) is the supreme meal . . . . We already have everything we need to prepare the supreme meal. The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems."

from "Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters," by Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields (BellTower, $20)